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Tom Sherman has a great rant about video in the current issue of Canadian Art. "Fuck film," he says, "The dead ideas of film are being heaped onto video. Cinematic history is like a ball and chain." This evangelical stance is pretty entertaining. I can't tell for sure how tongue-in-cheek he means to be, but I'm guessing this posture is somewhat self-conscious. Sherman is sophisticated, and he knows video. He has been insightfully pushing the medium for nearly its entire 40 year history. He also says:
Art is a perceptual and intellectual activity conducted by people who question and often despise the status quo. In the 21st century reality is defined by layer upon layer of media, often by media stacked high upon one another, unattached to any absolute truth (no matter how momentary and fleeting any sense of truth may be). Video is not only the best medium for critiquing television and cinema, its media next of kin, it is also a perceptual, philosophical instrument for questioning reality in broader terms, for finding problems with the way we connect with the world, and doing something about it.